Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC 2014 project proposal ?

[Michael Ossmann]

Open source GPS signal generation would be quite valuable to the
information security community.  See for example this nice paper that
shows how a GPS simulator can be used to explore the wireless attack
surface of GPS receivers:

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/courses/18487-f12/readings/Nov28_GPS.pdf

I'm not up to date enough on the existing GNSS receiver projects to know
how valuable #2 would be to the community.

Mike


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:25:02PM +0100, Martin Braun wrote:
>
> Damian,
> 
> your project sounds very interesting, specifically project 1 (I would
> love to be able to simulate GPS reception of random locations and times
> in my lab).
> 
> Have you checked the http://gnss-sdr.org/ website? They don't use GNU
> Radio, but it would still overlap a lot with what you're suggesting.
> 
> As you've probably read, we can't promise to find a mentor for this. But
> the idea sounds interesting! I recommend you go the usual route of
> setting up a proposal.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 03/10/2014 02:19 PM, Damian Miralles wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I wrote to the maillist a previous email with no response. I re-send
> > it in case the team does not have the chance to check it. I would be
> > very thankfull if the team would let me know if GNU Radio is
> > interested in this kind of approach for GSOC 2014.
> > My name is Damian Miralles, I am a senior computer engineering
> > students at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. I am very
> > interested inparticipating into the GSOC 2014 program and saw some of
> > the ideas posted there by Gnu Radio. I have a previous experience
> > working with GNU Radio  developing customs blocks for SDR
> > applications. The reason why I am writing is because I would like to
> > migrate some of the experience I have gained during the last year into
> > the GNURadio platform using the GSOC 2014 program.
> > Below is a description of the two possible projects that I would to
> > propose to the GNU Radio group, I will be really thankful if anyone
> > would let me know if it's of GNU Radio's interest.
> > 
> > 1- GPS L1-L2/GALILEO Signal Generation
> >  The GNU-Radio project includes excellent libraries for SDR, but
> > sometimes a piece of hardware is required to test the code or develop
> > new concepts. The idea behind this project would be to provide the GNU
> > Radio project with the  ability of generate raw GPS/Galileo signal
> > through software. Those generated signals would be realistic in terms
> > of noise addition, multipath, interference etc. With this capability
> > the user of GNU Radio would be able to control certains parameters in
> > the data simulated and test if the algorithms developed for reception
> > are suitable. I could easily offer more details on how to create it,
> > here it is only offer a basic idea.
> > 2- GPS toolkit.
> > Create GPS receivers capable of performing the GNSS lock, the kit
> > would include the basic approach for GPS signal acquisition, which
> > include the "Parallel Code Search", "Parallel Frequency Search", etc.
> > In addition I plan to include new techniques for GNSS signal
> > acquisition based on the work developed in:
> > http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/papers/quicksync-paper.pdf
> > 
> > Please I know the mailing list have a lot of work to due but If
> > someone would let me know if it is of GNU Radio interest would be
> > perfect.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> 
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